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by willstrafach 3094 days ago
> is WPA2 on a public Wifi with a publicly known key a workaround?

You're thinking of packet injection (or data intercept) by any nearby individual, which WPA2 with known PSK would mitigate. However, as an attacker would know the PSK, they could simply join the network to side-step this.